This is not future in English or Hebrew.Present tense
Genesis 32:32 "the children of Israel do not eat"
would not eat
Grammatical future tense is used for repeated or continuous action.
Not future, we seem to agree.Genesis 37:15 "What seekest thou?"
literary, What would you seek
This seems to parallel Spanish probable present, "I would say, he is at home
now"
...So, your "future tense" is past continuous or habitual, in several examples (snipped).
Past tense
Judges 11:40 "the daughters of Israel went from year to year"
Annually, the daughters of Israel would go
past continuous
...
Nowm we may argue whether deictic shift is behind idiomatic usage of future
tense for past continuous. It well might be: narrators transposed to the
beginning of sequence, or even to its cause. ...
... The point, however, is that past continuous sense of "would do" does not
impeach English tenses, and neither should similar use impeach Hebrew
tenses.
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